Time Travel: The Science and Science Fiction
For the reader who dreams of life in the past or wishes to know the future, "Time Travel: The Science and Science Fiction" by Nick Redfern is a book to give this year. Filled with short entries and packed with information, ideas, and possibilities from literature, philosophical thought, eyewitness accounts, and science, this book may make your giftee wish they had a ticket now...
Bookworm Sez
… Redfern focuses on the fascinating but largely anecdotal evidence for anomalistic time travel in human history … his book is essentially about ordinary people having extraordinary experiences. He covers a wide range … from precognitive dreams to timeslips like the famous Moberly- Jourdain incident at Versailles … not pushing any particular theory but just presenting the data and leaving readers to make up their own minds.
Fortean Times
From crop circles to black holes, this illustrated book for general readers surveys the possibility of time travel, as found in films, fiction, and folklore, as well as science.
Protoview Book News
... a fascinating and unputdownable book about time travel. Redfern takes an even-handed approach in examining the remarkable accounts of time leaps, paranormal events, or even encounters that approach the truly sinister. The believers and the skeptics will find agreement in the compelling work ...
San Francisco Book Review
Who doesn't yearn to travel through time to revisit the past or see the future? We live much of our lives thinking of other times, but what would you do if time travel were real? What does the science say? What does history tell us? And what do movies, writers, folklore, and others imagine for us?
A master storyteller and noted expert on the unexplained and paranormal, Nick Redfern presents dozens of intriguing accounts and fascinating stories on the history, the science, and the mysteries of time travel. From the physics of time warps to aliens in the matrix, Time Travel: The Science and Science Fiction works to uncover what happens when time doesn't march in only one direction.
The science, the history, and the tales of time bent, pasts visited, and futures traveled are brought into focus by Nick Redfern's latest exploration of unexplained, including …
The idea of time travel fascinates because it offers the possibility, however remote, of revisiting and recapturing moments from our youth. And if travelers of the future have secretly visited us—well, that proves that our future is secure. Stories of time travel abound in books and film, and the phenomenon has been a source of endless fascination—and speculation—surrounding UFO sightings and conspiracy theories. Whether back to the past or off to the future, Time Travel ripples with fascinating time travel stories, folklore, science myths and facts, and time travel’s place in pop culture.
With more than 100 photos and illustrations, this riveting read is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. For skeptics and enthusiasts alike, these gripping stories will make readers wonder about possible reunions with lost loves and the chance of untold power in knowing the future.
About Nick Redfern
Nick Redfern is the author of 30 books on UFOs and cryptozoology, including Monster Files;
The Real Men in Black; The NASA Conspiracies; and Strange Secrets. He has appeared on more than 70 TV shows, including: the BBC’s Out of This World; the SyFy Channel’s Proof Positive; and the History Channel’s Monster Quest.
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